Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-25
BURDEYITE ON INSOMNIA.
HOW He TRIED THE VARIOUS IN
FALLIBLE RECIPES.

says: "What pleases me, when l
am tOrmented with sleeplessness, ia
little health book Of my own, in
which | have jotted down a few-a
very few-Of the 9nfalible RENE
dies for sleeplessness which had
been tried IN thousands-or, per
haps, it was millions of cases,
most of which were in the pre-
scriber's own immediate family, or,
at the farthest, circle of intimate
friends, and had never once failed
TO effect a permanent and, and 1t IS
needless to say, instant cure. All
of these cases, collectively and each
one by itselflndiyidually, we're and
was exactly like my own in cause,
duration and operation. The sim.
plcity of the combined remedy ap.
peaIs at once to human confidence.
Eat nothing within three hours
before retiring.
Eat a light but substantial lnnch-
/ con just before going to bed. Ma
ture abhors a vacuum. This is one
! of the prescriptions I like.
Read light literature before gong
to bed
Read nothing after supper. Walk
a mile in the open air just before
bedtime.
Go to your room an hour before
retiring, and read until bedtime
Give up smoking altogether.
If you are a smoker, a cigar just
before retiring will soothe and tran
quilize your nerves, until you can't
keep awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you
scare away slumber by wOolng the
drowsy god.
Resolutely resolve, as you lie
down, that you will 90 to sleep,
and sleep will come naturally.
Take a warm bath and go from
the tub into bed.
Take a cold sponge bath, jump
into bed, ard you'll be asleep be-
fore your head touches the pillow
Walk slowly abOut your room
half an hour.
Lie on your right side, with your
cheek on your hand.
Lie on your left side, with your
head resting on your arm.
Count up to one thousand. |
tried this inhuman bit of ldocy one
night. l came very near falling
asleep two or three times, but was
started wide awake by suddenly be-
coming conscious that | had lost
my count, and had to begin over
again. This cure kept me awake
one whole night, when was so
, sleepy | could scarcely hold my
ewes open. The friend who gave
me this prescription is not living
now. She was a woman, and
could not, az a gentleman, offer heI
violence. SO I dOsed a box ol
marshmallows with Rough on Rats,
and sent them to her.
Drink milk. This, according to
my experience, is the best prescE;p
ton in the lot. 1t will make you
sleep better than all bromides going
which are sDares and delusiOns.-
But milk diet not only makes you
sleep at night, but you want to
sleep all the next day. 1t makes
YOU intOlerably stupid all the time
1t is a very pleasant, half awake
, feeling, if you have nothing else to
do but to enjoy falling asleep at any
time and in all manner of places,
like CoIyviIle in the best told sto-
ries of these times, "Indian sam
mer,' but if you have any work to
do it is embarrassing.
) So, what is a sleepless man who
wants to sleep going to do' IT he
eats light luncheon, smokes a
+ mild cigar, reads Bunner an hour,
= walks a mile in the air, comes back
= and walk another mile about his
room, takes q sponge bath, cold,
, followed by - tub bath, warm,
drinks pint of milk, jumps into
/ bed and lies on both sides, with his
2 head on one arm and one hand, and
) counts a thousand, it will be time
to get up, anyhow, and he can have
, a few nervous fts during the day.
1t isa fact however, that even
, men who think they suffer from
| sIeepessness do not lie awake half
so long as they imagine they do
When a man says to me, 81 did not
close my eyes once all night" !
: know he lies. Not Intentionally,
. of course he thinks be was awake
al. night; the probability is that he
did not get to sleep until two hours
after his regular time, and it seem
ed an ago to, him. Really, 1t isn't
often that man lies awate the
whole night through. | am not a
physician, and cannot speak by the
book, but | believe that men do tib
about their sleepless nights more
= than any other i'll to which our
, weak humanity is heir. Now, take
your own case you remember the
last time you lay awake all night,
; don't youi Yes, see you do
/ Well, don't you remember that
, same night you heard the clock
strike two and then the next time
yon heard it, it struck seven 2 Yes !
| see you do. Well, that's one OF
,ho n,vetarias ahout Insomnia that